Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-03-31

form that they can be conveniently in.
spected.
ADVANCES AND REDUCTIONS N RATES.
No advance shall be made in the rates
fares, and charges, which have been es-
tablished and published as aforesaid by
any common carrier, in compliance with
the requirements of this section, except
after ten days notice, which shall plainly
state the changes proposed to be made
in the schedule then il force, and the
time when the increased rates, fares or
charges will go into effect; and the pro-
posed changes shall be shown by printing
new schedules or shall b. plainly indicat-
ed upon the schedules in force at the
time and kept for public inspection. Re
duotions in such published rates, fares or
charges may be made without previous
public notice; but whenever any such re
duction is made, notice of the same shall
Immediately te publicly posted and the
changes made shall Immediately be made
public by printing new schedules or shall
Immediately be plainly indicated upon
the schedules at the time in force and
kept for public inspection. Aud when
any such common carrier shall have es-
tablished and published its rates, fares
and charges, in compliance with the
/ provisions of this section, it shall be IN
lawful for such common carrier to charge,
| demand, collect or receive from any per
/ son or persons greater or less compen
satien for transportation of passengers
or property, or for any service in con
nection Herewith shan is specified in
such ublished schedule of rates fares and
charges as may at the time be in force.
| SCHEDULES FILED WITH COMMISSIONERS.
Every common carrier subject to the
| provisions of this act shall file with the
commission hereinafter provided for cop
| les of its schedul, # rates, fares and
! charges which have been established and
! published in compliance with the require
ments of this section, and shall promptly
notify said commission of all changes
made in the same. Every such common
carrier shall also file with said commits
sion copies of all contracts, agreements
/ or arrangements with other common car
riers in relation to any traffic affected by
/ the provisions of this act to which it may
/ be party And in cases where passen-
| gers and freight pass over continuous
/ lines or routes operated by more than
one common carrier, and the several com
mon carriers operating such lines or
routes, establish joint tariffs or rates or
| fares or charges for continuous lines or
routes, copies Of such Joint tariffs shall
/ also, in like manner be filed with said
commission. Such joint rates fares and
! charges on such continuous lines so filed
as aforesaid shall be made public by such
common carriers when directed by said
commission, in so far as may, in the judg
ment Of the com mission, be deemed nrac-
/ ticable: and said commission shall from
! time TO time prescribe the measure Of
| publicity which shall be given to such
rates, fares, and charges or to such part
of them As it may deem IL practicable for
such common carriers to publish, and the
places in which they shall be published
, but no common carrier party to any such
1 joint tariff shall be liable for the failure
of any other common carrier party there.
/ 10 to observe and adhere to the rates,
/ fares, or charges thus made and pub.
| iished.
FAILURE 20 FILE on PUBLISH RATES.
/ If any such common carrier shall neg
+ lect or refuse to file or publish its SEIZED
ules or tariffs of rates, fares ana charges
as provided in this section or any part of
| the same, such common carrier shall in
\ addition TO other penalties herein pre-
/ scribed, be subject to a writ Of mandam
/ us to be issued by any circuit court of
/ the United States in the judicial district
| wherein the principal Office Of said com
mon carrier is situated or wherein such
/ olIense may be commi ted, and II such
common carrier be a foreign corporation,
in the Judicial circuit wherein such com
mon carrier accepts traffic and has an
agent to perform such service, compel
| OmpliRnce with the aforesaid provisions
/ OF this section, and such writ shall issue
/ in the name of the people of the United
! States al the relation of the commission
ers appointed under the provisions of
/ tins act; and failure to comply with its
requirements shall be punishable as and
for contempt and the commissioners
/ as compliments may also apply in any
such circuit court of the United States
/ for writ Of Injunction against SUI
common carrier from receiving or trans
porting among the several states and ter
ritories of the United States OF between
| the United States and adjacent foreign
countries, or between ports of trans
/ shipment and of entry and the several
] states anu lsEEllofltS OF the united
! States,as mentioned in the first section Of
/ this act, until such common carrier shall
have complied with the aforesaid proyis
/ ions of this section of this act.
| CONVERSATIONS TO PREVENT CONTINUOUS cAR-
RAGE.
/ Sec. Z. That il shall be unlawful for
any common carrier ubject to the pro-
/ visions of this act to enter into any com
bination, contract or agreement, express
ed or implied, to prevent, by change of
time schedule, carriage in different cars,
/ or by any other means or device. the car
riage of freights from being continuous
/ from the place of shipment to the place
| of destination; and no break of bulk.
stoppage or interruption made by such
common carrier shall prevent the carriage
OF froights from being and being treated
as one continuous carriage from the place
OF 8hipment TO the place Of destination,
unless such break, stoppage or Interrupt
tion was made in good faith for some
( necessary purpose, and without any intent
| to avoid or unnecessarily interrupt such
! continuous carriage Of TO evade any Of
I the provisions Ol ihiS act